The State of the European Union: Vol. 6: Law, Politics, and Society

This is the seventh volume in the highly influential State of the European Union series, produced under the auspices of the European Union Studies Association. This volume provides major new insights on both the recent evolution of the EU and its future developmental trajectory, and maps European trends against American policies and institutions. Law, Politics and Society is the sixth and latest addition to the European Union Studies Association series, State of the European Union. The contributors of this volume take the dynamic interaction between law, politics and society as a starting point to think critically about recent developments and future innovations in European integration and EU studies. The book provides an overview of key events between 2000 and 2002 in the European Union, while illuminating how these institutional (formal legal) developments impact ordinary individuals and EU politics. For example, the European Convention with the possibility of an EU constitution is viewed not only as a new institutional development, but we examine what impact the creation of judicially enforceable rights has for Europeans and European integration. How does the opportunity for new rights claims alter the balance of power between individuals and EU organizations, such as the European Court of Justice, vis à vis national governments in EU policy expansion? Importantly, the volume also seeks to provide a unique and interdisciplinary approach to studying the European Union by bringing together both legal scholars and political scientists. Chapter contributors offer readers both sophisticated theoretical and empirical accounts of these new developments. Issues such as enlargement, immigration reform, and monetary union require not only a precise understanding of an increasingly complex set of formal legal rules (the domain of legal scholars), but equally important are the effects on ordinary citizens and political participation (the very power struggles that concern political scientists). This volume seeks to integrate these two approaches, not only by including the scholarship in a single volume, but by asking individual contributors to think outside their respective disciplines. The division between the legal and political, as many would argue, is often both artificial and unproductive. Our volume seeks to bridge this divide. Law, politics and society in Europe / Rachel A. Cichowski and Tanja A. Börzel European integration and the legal system / Alec Stone Sweet The European court of justice and the evolution of EU law / Gráinne de Búrca Legitimate diversity : the new challenge of European integration / Fritz W. Scharpf New modes of governance in Europe : increasing political capacity and policy effectiveness? / Adrienne Héritier The reform of treaty revision procedures : the European convention on the future of Europe / Lars Hoffmann and Anna Vergés Bausili The evolution of Europe's transnational political parties in the era of European citizenship / Stephen Day and Jo Shaw Tackling social exclusion through OMC : reshaping the boundaries of European governance / Kenneth A. Armstrong Guarding the treaty : the compliance strategies of the European Commission / Tanja A. Börzel The EU rights revolution : adversarial legalism and European integration / R. Daniel Kelemen Europe's No Fly Zone? Rights, obligations and liberalization in practice / Lisa Conant Towards a federal Europe? The Euro and institutional change in historical perspective / Kathleen R. McNamara European enlargement and institutional hypocrisy / Elena A. Iankova and Peter J. Katzenstein EU immigration policy : from intergovernmentalism to reluctant harmonization / Terri Givens and Adam Luedtke Researching the European Union : qualitative and quantitative approaches / Stacy A. Nyikos and Mark A. Pollack Web- teaching the EU : Online sources and online courses / Michael Baun and Phil Wilkin. This is the sixth and latest addition to the European Union Studies Association's prestigious series, State of the European Union. The contributors of this volume take the dynamic interaction between law, politics and society as a starting point to think critically about key recent events in the European Union, while bringing to the forefront why these developments matter for ordinary citizens The contributors to this volume take the dynamic interaction between law, politics and society as a starting point to think critically about recent developments and future innovations in European integration and EU studies